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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Gratz v. Bollinger in Affirmative Action landmark (Op-Ed)
By jvcoleman
Tue Apr 1st, 2003 at 07:44:07 PM EST
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While the world and much of the population of America desperately watches for signs of hope from the killing fields in Iraq, ripples from the decades-long civil rights backlash movement have quietly begun to wash ashore at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gratz v. Bollinger, a case that is expected to challenge the constitutional legitimacy of Affirmative Action, will be heard by the highest court in the land. Given the recent change of course in the history of democratic rights in America, this effectively puts all existing ameliorative programs designed to help minority students from low-income backgrounds enter college and succeed on an equal playing field into jeopardy.
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And Now For Something Completely Different - Mead! (Science)
By jd
Tue Apr 1st, 2003 at 03:26:22 PM EST
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The oldest known alchoholic beverage in the world, and one modern-day brewers persist in making completely wrong. So, if you're into trying the drink that the Greeks called the nectar of the Gods, then read on...
(Please note that this is an expanded version of my diary entry of the same title)
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Mac OS X Tech Talk Tour: UNIX on the Desktop (Technology)
By codemonkey_uk
Tue Apr 1st, 2003 at 02:23:34 PM EST
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On a bright clear day on the outskirts of London, I sat in a lush hotel seemingly staffed exclusively by beautiful people with exotic accents, waiting for my sandwich. I am surrounded by businessmen in expensive looking suits, and hippies with expensive looking Apple notebooks.
As I read about the war going on halfway around the world in the 'free' newspaper laid on by the hotel I can hear two men with beards wage their own private battle with their network configuration and the connection to the hotel's wireless network gateway.
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Owatonna's Dilemma (Culture)
By randinah
Tue Apr 1st, 2003 at 12:52:36 PM EST
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Situated on the intersection of Interstate 35 and Highway 14 in southern Minnesota is my hometown, the city of Owatonna. With a population of approximately 20,000, this quaint rural city is just about as average as you can get with a historical central park, fairgrounds, white suburban families with 2.3 children, and its own myth. Except for one fact; this small city has experiencing a rapid influx of Somalian Refugees.
Owatonna has taken in hundreds of refugees out of Somalia because of the war and famine that has kept the country unstable for over fifty years. Around 1997 about two hundred Somalian refugees immigrated to Owatonna and were given jobs at factories such as Viracon, a glass making company, and Owatonna's Canning Company. Since then many Somalians, rich and poor (including, for a time the family of the prime minister of Somalia, Ali Khalif Galayidh) have begun to call Owatonna Minnesota home. With the arrival of the first Somalian immigrant some six years ago, Owatonna's residents have been coming to terms with the fact that their little nest of 20,000 has been changed forever.
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Visions of Empire: Sovereignty Transformed (Politics)
By Jett
Mon Mar 31st, 2003 at 05:54:15 PM EST
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In recent years, scholars have noted that the powers associated with sovereignty are being transformed. This transformation has been largely tied to globalization. There are a variety of processes at work in globalization which can be attributed with challenging traditional functions of sovereignty.
There is disagreement over what this transformation of sovereignty means: Is sovereignty being eroded; is it in decline? Or, is sovereignty going through a conceptual transition; is sovereignty being reconfigured?
A new system of global governance is evolving, one in which the simplicity of discrete territorial units is but one aspect of something more complex and interwoven.
This essay deals with an issue central to contemporary international relations: the on-going transformation of sovereignty.
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Building Rackmount Cases for Music (Culture)
By willi
Mon Mar 31st, 2003 at 12:00:12 PM EST
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Musicians face a multitude of challenges in this day and age, yet there are also many musicians who are trying to work towards the future of music distribution. One constant challenge in almost any profession is money. With CPU power continuing to advance at a rapid rate, many musicians are finding computer-based software synthesis and recording to be much more cost effective and capable than traditional hardware synthesizers and recording units. While some musicians are using laptops, the lack of expandability limits capabilities in terms of synthesis, multitrack recording, storage, etc. One could always throw more computers at the problem. But many users will no doubt find a good rackmount system provides a better balance of capability, expandibility, and portability, at a more cost effective price.
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Iraqi Military Tactics - An Atrocity or Necessity? (MLP)
By Suaup
Sun Mar 30th, 2003 at 04:23:04 PM EST
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Where do you stand on Iraq's unconventional tactics of war? American leaders and citizens have expressed outrage and anger over Iraq's use of war tactics involving deception, incognito, and suicide. Their tactics have evolved and adapted to the dynamic American war plan - shifting from pretending to surrender as a means to engage American and British troops, all the way to now committing suicide attacks against stationary troops.
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